Fracture stiffness measurement using the orthometer: Reproducibility and sources of error

Clinical Biomechanics

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 140-142

  Eastaugh Waring, S J ^a   Hardy, J R W ^a   Cunningham, J L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL EQUIPMENT; GONIOMETERS; MEASUREMENT ERRORS; MECHANICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; STIFFNESS;

ORTHOMETERS; STIFFNESS MEASUREMENT;

BIOMECHANICS;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; ERROR; FORCE; FRACTURE HEALING; GONIOMETRY; JOINT STIFFNESS; MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; TECHNIQUE; TRAINING;

ELASTICITY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION STUDIES; FRACTURE HEALING; FRACTURES, BONE; HUMANS; ORTHOPEDIC EQUIPMENT; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESEARCH DESIGN; ROTATION; STRESS, MECHANICAL;

EID: 0033962307     PISSN: 02680033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0268-0033(99)00029-7     Document Type: Article

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